Seeping well



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SEEPING WELL Filed Feb. 4, 1954 jawod QE@ Z5- INVENTOR ATTORNEYS. A

United States Patent Oce Patented Oct. 23, 1956 SEEPING WELL Harold O.Eads, Vienna, W. Va.

Application February 4, 1954, Serial No. 408,188

1 Claim. (Cl. 182-2) This invention relates to a new article ofmanufacture for a seeping well and more particularly to water containersto be located below the surface of an area of earth and connected to asource of water supply as a septic tank or the like to dispose of thewater from the tank throughout the area of earth with which the seepingwell is in direct contact.

It is a primary object of this invention to provide a seeping well ofthe kind to be more particularly described hereinafter having waterexhaust openings through which water may freely flow into thesurrounding earth, the water being derived from gutters around the edgeof building roofs or from drain water from the building to be disposedof in an area of ground spaced from the building.

-It is a further object of this invention to provide a seeping well ofthis kind which may be directly connected by a tile sewer pipe or thelike without a bell coupling end to a source of water supply on one sideof the well and to an elbow pipe on an opposite side of the well or toan adjacent and similar seeping well.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will behereinafter described and the novel features thereof defined in theappended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic View of the seeping Well connected to otherseeping wells and a septic tank in a ground opening.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one corner of the seeping well, partlyin section, removed from the ground.

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section, partly broken away, taken onthe line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Referring more specifically to the drawings the numeral designatesgenerally a seeping well constructed according to an embodiment of myinvention. The seeping well is constructed from a pair of sheets ofgalvanized metal designated by the reference numerals 11 and 12 in thedrawings although it is to be understood that any and other types ofsheet metal as copper may equally well be used. In the normalconstruction of the invention 16 gauge galvanized steel or 18 gaugecopper bearing steel is used but 18 gauge galvanized or 16 gauge copperbearing sheet may equally well be used throughout the entire structureof the seeping well 10.

Each sheet of forming material as the sheets 11 and 12 may be initiallyformed by bending each sheet to provide a at outer side wall 13 on onesheet and a flat outer side wall 14 on the other sheet. The bending ofthe side walls or sheets 12 and 13 will provide end walls 15 on one endof each of the outer side walls 13 and 14. The end walls 15 are furtherformed with a flange 16 along one outer edge thereof bent parallel tothe respective outer side wall of the particular sheet of metal.

The flanges 16 of the end walls are spot welded as by spot welds 17throughout their length thereof to the other side wall so as to providea substantially rectangular pipe open at the opposite ends thereof,sheets may also be joined by are welding, llash welding, or riveting.

Y ended well.

Each of the sheets of metal 12 and 13 are provided with a pipe opening18 adjacent the upper edge thereof through which pipes, as elongatedtile pipes may be extended having the end of the pipe, as shown indotted lines in Fig. l extending interiorly of the resulting open Thepipe openings 18 are formed in the outer side walls and horizontallyelongated drain openings 19 are formed in the side walls adjacent to andextending below the pipe opening 18 as clearly indicated in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings.

Similar drain openings, formed in a vertically extending series are alsoprovided in each of the end walls 15 as clearly indicated in Fig. 2 ofthe drawings.

Substantially hooded upwardly struck louvres 20 are formed in the sidewalls and end walls adjacent to the drain openings 19, each of thelouvres 20 having a substantially horizontally extending top cover and adepending skirt 21 on the outer edge of the hood with the skirtextending outwardly from the openings 19.

A cap 22 is formed of the same sheet material as the well to beremovably attached to the upper end of the well. A flange 23 is formedabout the periphery of the substantially rectangular cap for bearingengagement with the outer side of the upper end of the formed sheets ofmetal 11 and 12 as clearly indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

In order to hold the cap 22 in place as a cover for the upper end of thewell a clip 24 is welded to, or otherwise secured on the lower side ofthe sheet of metal forming the cap 22 between the anges 23, the clip 24being substantially inverted L shaped in configuration for pressingagainst the inner side of the sheets of metal 11 and 12 forsubstantially clamping the cap 22 to the upper end of the seeping well.

The clip 24 is substantially inverted I. shaped, having a vertical arm26 and a horizontal arm 27. The horizontal arm 27 of the clip may bewelded or otherwise secured to the lower side of the cap 22 and thevertical arm 26 may be slightly bent outwardly from the verticallyextending portion thereof to form a guide to receive the upper edge ofthe sheet of metal so that the sheet of metal is directed between thevertically extending arm 26 and the flange 23 of the cap.

A stitfening base angle bar 28 is welded to the well at the lower endthereof remote from the connection of the lid 22, said angle bar 28having a vertical arm 29 (welded within the well and a horizontal arm 30extending outwardly from the well as a sort of anchor engageable in theground.

The well 10 may be used alone for connection to a septic tank exteriorlyof a building or a plurality and series of seeping wells 10 may beconnected together so that when one of the seeping wells 10 becomessubstantially lled with water the excess water may freely pass to anadjacent seeping well as clearly indicated in Fig. l of the drawings.

An elbow pipe 28 is secured at one end thereof to one of the pipeopenings 18 to provide a substantial exhaust for the water or otherliquid material collected in the seeping well.

When the seeping wells are connected together by a tile pipe 29 and to aseptic tank 30 the septic 30 may derive its material through an inletpipe 31.

The seeping well 10 is initially located in an opening in the ground andgravel 32 may substantially surround the seeping well 10 so that liquidin the seeping well may freely be absorbed by the ground.

Sod 33 may be located on the upper surface of the ground, the opening inthe ground for the seeping well being substantially below the surface ofthe sod and the upper surface of the ground in a substantially wellknown manner.

While the specific details of one embodiment of this invention have beenherein shown and described, the invention is not conned thereto aschanges and alterations may be made without departing from the spiritand scope thereof as dened in the appended claim.

I claim:

A seeping well comprising an upright tubular member having a rectangularconfiguration in transverse section, an angle member secured to thelower end of said tubular member, said angle member having one sidethereof vertical and secured to the inner face of said tubular member,said angle member having the other side thereof horizontal andprojecting outwardly, said horizontal side forming a base, a capdisposed on the upper end of said tubular member, said cap being formedof a horizontal plate, depending flanges carried by said plate about themarginal edges thereof and telescoping over the upper end of saidtubular member and outwardly struck downwardly opening louvres formed onthe vertical sides and 4,- ends of said tubular member, said tubularmember having aligned openings in the upper portion of each sidethereof.

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